Walter H. Taylor

Walter Herron Taylor (13 June 1838-1 March 1916) was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a Senator in the Virginia State Assembly.

Biography
Walter Herron Taylor was born in Norfolk, Virginia on 13 June 1838, and he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1857. Taylor was a merchant and banker in Norfolk until the secession of Virginia at the start of the American Civil War, and he joined the Confederate States Army. In June 1862, he became Assistant Adjutant General of the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee, serving as Lee's aide-de-camp. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel on 12 December 1863, and he accompanied Lee until the surrender at Appomattox in 1865. Taylor became a banker after the war, and he was a Virginia state senator from 1869 to 1873. Taylor sat on the board of directors of the Norfolk and Western Railway and later became a lawyer and real estate businessman, and he died in 1916 at the age of 77.